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Alberta reported 717 cases of COVID-19 on Saturday after completing 12,439 tests on Friday.

As case and testing numbers decline, Alberta Health Services say two walk-in testing centres in the Calgary Zone will shift to administering immunizations.

Ballantyne says AHS simply needs additional product. “For example, in Calgary Zone, approximately 1,500 available appointments for healthcare workers had to be closed so that vaccine could be used to complete immunization of long-term care and designated supportive living residents,” she explains. “Central Zone completely ran out of vaccine over the weekend. Numerous North Zone sites ran out of vaccines over the past few days, and South Zone had to reduce the number of available appointments.” Premier Jason Kenney has said the province hopes to start rolling out COVID-19 vaccines to...

The new strain appears to spread easily from person to person but has not presented deadlier symptoms than the original COVID-19.

Article content Alarm and frustration are building over what some say is the slow pace of COVID-19 vaccinations in Alberta. Two weeks ago, Health Minister Tyler Shandro said 29,000 doses of vaccine would be administered to front-line health-care workers and long-term care residents by the end of the year. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Frustration mounts over pace of Alberta COVID-19 vaccinations Back to video But on Monday, only 6,016 Albertans had received the vaccine, said Alberta’s chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw, who...